Hello Björn. In short, no. What google does to their algorithmic search is extremely secretive. It is also a very limited subset of the type of data Lucene.Net might store. It uses lots of signals from around the web, such as how many people link to a particular page, to guage the important of a particular search result. This becomes irrelveant if you are indexing something such as research documents. People don't link to other documents in the traditional sense. Further, the recent changes they made really focused on downranking "content farms" where data is cheaply put together and lots of advertising is added to generate advertising revenues. Their changes don't really apply to Lucene. That would more apply to how you decide to index your content, how deal with strengtheners, etc. Hope that helps, ~Prescott Nasser
---------------------------------------- > Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 11:12:17 +0100 > From: b...@patorg.de > To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org > Subject: [Lucene.Net] Google Ranking with Lucene > > Hello, > > i have just read that google has optimised its ranking. Now google shows > more relevant results on the first pagen as before. Is there a chance to > get advantage of this ranking algorithm with Lucene? > > Thank You > Björn
